General Fandom Meta

liviapenn - 2007-03-28: liviapenn: Atlantis meta: time to stop and think about things - "There is a disturbing pattern that ... people are observing in various AUs, where people take the female characters... and the characters of color...and demote them-- making their characters noticeably less educated and skilled than white male characters."

aris_writing - 2007-03-28: aris_writing: [meta] I Suck At Summaries (Notes Toward a Unified Fan - "So here are some notes toward a unified theory on summary writing, starting with a brief digression into types of fanfic and the dreaded categorization debate."

naotalba - 2007-03-29: naotalba: Affectional orientation versus sexual orientation - "In the modern world, I see a relatively common pattern of bisexual men who are affectionally straight - they enjoy sex with both sexes, but only fall in love with women. From this, I believe that affectional orientation is more influenced by culture than sexual orientation. In Age of Sail stories, it seems to me that the opposite would likely hold true, at least for sailors. "

telesilla - 2007-03-30: telesilla: SGA Meta: As the bowl of petunias said, "Oh no, not again - "No, race shouldn't matter. I believe that very strongly for any number of reasons. But I also know that, unfortunately, in the US today, it does matter."

moxie_brown - 2007-03-29: moxie_brown: Because I just can't help myself... - "'m so sorry my experiences in life being treated as the Other harsh your fandom buzz, but I don't get the privilege to say it's just a show and merrily flit on to the next hot white male OTP."

ravurian - 2007-03-29: ravurian: Not a Tame Lion: A Boy's Adventures in Narnia - "Chief of the things I hadn’t counted on was that in the intervening period between Escapade 2000 and Escapade 2007, 'by women, for women' had stopped being a generalised observation of a prevailing trend and became the motto of the ruling caste."

parthenia14 - 2007-03-30: parthenia14: from over there, perhaps we all look stupid - "Anyway, Easter homework: // Is fanfiction female? Is this a female space? Is slash feminist? // Or is it a frankly tawdry habit for people who don't get (out) enough?"

losyark - 2007-03-30: losyark: Fangirls vs. Fanboys - "No sooner had the paragraph left my fingers was I left wondering what had prompted me to write something so blatantly biased and frankly insulting to the women who were fans in general and anime fans in specific, especially when I personally am both a woman and an avid anime fan."

revelininsanity - 2007-03-30: revelininsanity: untitled - "Can we not, as a society, admit there is a fucking problem? Can we not, fandom as a whole, admit there is an issue with the portrayal of people of colour in fanfiction?"

darkrosetiger - 2007-03-30: darkrosetiger: "Are you angry?" "Hell yeah!" - "'m really close to saying, "Fuck it all," because I'm tired of having to explain every three months that while it's nice that you, Ms. Middle-Class White American Fangirl, is all liberal and "doesn't think about race", I don't get that luxury."

emrinalexander - 2007-03-29: emrinalexander: untitled - "If I write a story where Ronon drives a cab or works in a grocery store, does that mean I'm a racist? How about if I make John a cab driver and Ronon the owner of the grocery store? What difference does that make?"

rahirah - 2007-03-29: rahirah: [on categorization] - ". There's an unspoken presumption running through all these arguments that the person who interprets canon or character differently than you do is doing so not because they honestly see canon and character in that way, but because they really, really want to annoy you. Secretly they know that you're right, and all that subtext stuff they keep yammering on about? They're making it up."

geeklite - 2007-03-30: geeklite: This is not part of the race wank, but it's about race. - "You know what bothers me about race in Sci-Fi shows where our heroes go to meet aliens that look like actors from North America? That there are the same races as here on Earth. And that these races have to be in the same proportions as here on Earth."

akirlu - 2007-03-29: akirlu: Hugo & Campbell Short Lists Announced - "Fandom is a many-to-many conversation, not just about Important People getting the mic to tell us humble masses What Important People Think."

witchwillow - 2007-03-30: witchwillow: Wherein I Pimp My Roommate's Coming Essay Like A Hard H - "The roommate likes to joke that if our life were a tv show, everyone would think in heavy subtext that we were more than just roommates. But now I don't know if we'd even get watched by the fannish people in the first place."

idyll - 2007-03-30: idyll: Here, have two shiny pieces of copper - "I'm saying that there is a difference between something said/done/written in ignorance or lack of forethought, and something said/done/written from a place of true prejudice, intolerance, racism and/or discrimination."

rahirah - 2007-03-23: rahirah: Several ponders - "On one of the lists I'm on, there's an author who makes a career out of 'fixing' other people's fanfic - they go around writing sequels to fic they don't like . . . the really interesting feature of all of this is that in the mind of at least one reader, fanfic has become co-equal to canon to the extent that they feel the same desire to mess with it that all of us do with canon."

Specific Fandom Meta

( Cut for possible Spoilers for the Fandoms: Supernatural )

On Reading, Writing, Vidding, Etc.:

thete1 - 2007-03-29: thete1: On feedback response. - "If I like something, and I have the time, I leave feedback."

iamtheenemy - 2007-03-29: iamtheenemy: Irrational fanfic pet peeves - "So what are your irrational fanfic pet peeves? Things you don't like seeing, character-wise or just generally (mpreg, AUs, off-world stories, aliens made them do it, etc.), that you might not even have a reason for disliking aside from the fact that you do?"

m_phoenix - 2007-03-29: m_phoenix: vidding wishes... - "So what about you guys? What songs make you wish you had the power to vid? Or if you are a vidder what inspires you?"

shihadchick - 2007-03-30: rat_jam: Meta: Plot, Woe, Plot: Faking Forensics and Conjuring Crime - "It seems as if every time we turn around there's another crime procedural show on TV. They may not have the biggest fandoms (yet!) but there's definitely a lot of potential there for fannish creation, and what this discussion aims to do is to give everyone a chance to discuss tools to use for any type of fic that has more than a glossing of crime plot or forensic detail involved."

xanphibian - 2007-03-29: xanphibian: untitled - "You know when you're reading a fic and something happens, or is just mentioned in passing, and you go, "Oh god, this is not going to end well!" because you can just FEEL the stomach clenching potential for angst? But then the writer either forgets about this Big Thing or glosses over it or resolves it in less than 300 words?"

Links, Polls, etc

author_by_night - 2007-03-29: author_by_night: Growing up with Harry - "Many of us were children or in our early teens when we first picked up the book with that odd guy in front of a train (or on a broomstick, or somewhere else, depending on where you reside.) So I'm conducting a survey of sorts, and want feedback from those of you who were in your teens or younger when you first read the books."